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The Dustpan
 
This page is being used to record information about the history of the origami design known as the Dustpan. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Although this is almost certainly originally a Japanese design, it appears first in a Western European source.

There is a somewhat similar design known as the Winnowing Box.

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In Japan (and in publications by Japanese authors)

1905

As far as I know this design first appears in Japan in 'Shukouka Kyohon : Liron Jishuu Souga Setsumei' by Kikujiro Kiuchi, Rokushiro Uehara and Hideyoshi Okayama, which was published by Shigebei Takase in Chiba in 1905.

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1908

The design also appears, as 'The Dustpan' in 'Origami zusetsu' (Illustrated Origami) by Sano Shozo, which was published in Tokyo in 1908.

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In Western Europe and the Americas

1901

As far as I know this design first appears in the West in an article written by Alber-Graves in the French children's magazine in the French children's magazine 'Mon Journal' of 17th August 1901.

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1908

The design also appears, as 'La Pelle' (the shovel), in 'Les Petits Secrets Amusants' by Alber-Graves, which was published by Librairie Hachette in Paris in 1908.

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